A referee\'s error

[Medusa Gladiatrix]

Don't really understand Battaglia's argument (or perhaps it's been lost in translation).

As far as I understand it, it is in the Greek inscription mentioned that after winning over and putting the adversary Demetrios to the ground Diodoros missed it to kill him immediatly.

For Battaglia only in a sine missione fight it was allowed to kill the opponent, in an ad iudicum fight you could only wound or disarm your opponent who then had to claim mercy from the audience. There should be no interuption through the summa rudis of the fight when sine missione, only when ad iudicum. This is Battaglia's interpretation.